Comments on: The Tel Dan Inscription: The First Historical Evidence of King David from the Bible https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/ Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Pearlman YeC https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/#comment-2000171665 Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:44:09 +0000 https://biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=236#comment-2000171665 In reply to George Athas.

interesting, for context Holy Temple I 2928-3338
Kings of Israel:
Yehu 3055-3083
Yehoachaz 3083-3100
Yehoash 3100-3116

]]> By: Pearlman YeC https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/#comment-2000171664 Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:37:34 +0000 https://biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=236#comment-2000171664 Some may consider it the King of Israel Yehu (3055-3083) Stele
Either way as far as the Kingdom of David (2884-2924 anno-mundi) see our findings in ‘David’s Kingdom of Taita’
David’s ‘Kingdom of Taita’, David is Taita! [Broken URL removed by site admin]
in volume III of the Pearlman YeC Torah Discovery Chronology aka Bible Chronology untying a knot.

]]> By: Tom Howard https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/#comment-2000108194 Fri, 30 Jul 2021 13:22:41 +0000 https://biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=236#comment-2000108194 In reply to Michael Lewey.

Actually what is based on “biblical material” (if one studies it) is that David was anointed King over Israel, and the other “archaeological material”, just lends proof of it!

]]> By: George Athas https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/#comment-2000007894 Mon, 13 May 2019 03:26:32 +0000 https://biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=236#comment-2000007894 The consensus that Hazael was the author of the Tel Dan Inscription cannot be sustained. The academy continues to turn a blind eye to the remains of an extra letter that is plainly there on Fragment A, and which overturns the reading proposed by Biran and Naveh. I have written about this at length in my book, “The Tel Dan Inscription” (T&T Clark, 2003), an article (“Setting the Record Straight: What Are We Making of the Tel Dan Inscription,” in JSS 2006), and summarised on my blog (withmeagrepowers.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/the-extra-letter-on-the-tel-dan-inscription/.

The Tel Dan Inscription was written c. 796 BC by Hazael’s son, Bar Hadad, in response to the victories of Jehoash, King of Israel. It preserves mention of Jerusalem as the “House of David,” which is best explained as an appellation arising from an actual historical David. It is not about Hazael taking credit for the coup of Jehu in Israel.

]]> By: Michael Lewey https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/#comment-2000007019 Sat, 04 May 2019 06:01:51 +0000 https://biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=236#comment-2000007019 What seems probable based on Biblical and archaeological material is that “King David” was essentially an Iron-age extortionist who may have raided or collected tribute from the area hypothesized to be the “Davidic Empire”, but only “ruled” a small hill-country polity.

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